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W. (JOHN.

GHAIN AND CHAIN PASTENER.

No. 540,578. Patented June-4, 1895.

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WILLIAM'COHN, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

CHAIN AN D. CHAIN-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,578, dated June 4,1895.

Application filed February 21, 1895. Serial No. 539,234. (No model.)

The object of this invention is to provide a means by which chains suchas neck chains or lorgnette chains, may be worn and adjusted upon theclothing of the wearer, as may be desired, and to provide a convenientmeans of fastening such chains to the clothes of the wearer.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents my improved chainprovided with my improved chain-fastener. Fig. 2 represents the improvedfastener, showing two sections of the chain. Figs. 3 and 4 showmodifications of the improvement herein described.

Similar letters refer to'corresponding parts.

A represents a chain made up of sections A, B, O, B and C. Thesesections have at their ends, cups E and F, into'which cups the ends ofthese sections are fastened. These two cups E and F are united at H, atwhich point H, the hook I and the arm K of the ornament D are alsovfastened, so that the two cups E and F, hook I and ornament D areunited, and form one piece; the said ornament and cups being so arrangedthat the ornament D will be in the front of the chain, and visible onthe clothes of the wearer, while the hook I should be set at such anangle as to be easily hooked on to the clothes of the wearer. The neckpiece A goes around the neck of the wearer. One end of said neck piece Ais fastened into the cup E (Fig. 1), and the other end of the said neckpiece A is fastened into another cup F. The pieces B and O, B and 0'make up the rest of the chain; the ends of the said pieces B and 0 beingalternately fastened into the cups E and F.

B and C will be terminal pieces of the chain, and have one end fastenedin cups E and F, shown in Fig. 1, and meet in the hook J, so that thechain will be composed of sections, the ends-of which are fastened incups E and F, united at H, at which point are also joinedthe hook I andornament D.

,Heretofore when these chains have been worn, the wearer has haddifficulty in maintaining the chains in graceful or proper position. Bymeans of this invention, the chain can be fastened by the wearer withthe hooks I and kept in position, and the appearance of the chainimproved by the ornament covering the hook I.

In Fig. 3 is shown a modification of this invention, in which, insteadof separate cupsE and F being used, one cup E (Fig. 3) is employed, andthe ends of B and Oof the chain meet in said cup E'gand the ornament Dis fastened by means of the arm K at H, directly opposite the point H,at which the hook I is fastened. A further modification is shown in Fig.V4, in which is shown a continuous chain, and the ornament D and hook Iare fastened to the chain A at H.

Of course I do not limit myself to the precise methods herein shown, butI desire to cover by my invention, the mechanical equivalents of any ofthe parts or methods, herein described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent 1. A chain comprising a number of sections and cups, forsecuring the ends of said sec tions together at their points of contact,having ornaments and hooks at such points of contact, substantially asand for the purposes herein described.

, 2. A chain composed of the part A, sections Band 0 and B and O, andthe ends of which said part A and sections B and O and B and C are eachjoined. in cups E and F, said cups E and F being united at a point H, inconjunction with a hook I and ornament D, fastened to said cups E and Fat H; the whole forming one chain, substantially as and for the purposesherein described.

WVILLIAM COHN.

I Witnesses:

PHILIP C. GERMOND,

OSCAR ENGLANDER.

